1. Introduction to your market for social capital

2. “From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.”

3. Marx said

4. This has often been interpreted to mean that everything should be shared equally. But Marx says nothing about equality, rather he emphasizes the relationships between people.

5. A communist society is a society where everyone is linked in a mutual interdependency with others and self- actualization is the driving force.

6. a little bit like Facebook

7. but for work

8. In Pappenheim’s words:

9. “If our goal is to overcome alienation by fostering bonds between man and man, then we must build up institutions which enable man to identify his ends with those of others, with the direction in which his society is moving.”

10. “In other words, we must try to reduce the gulf between the realms of the private and the public.”

11. the private and the public

12. the social and the economic

13. reproduction and production

14. therefore

15. we have asked ourselves how we can merge a social institution like family and friends, with an economic like a company

17. public corporation> acquiring shares > access to e-capital > < social network < friend requests < access to s-capital Similarities

18. public corporation< legally contracts < unknown people < unlimited time < > social network > no legal validity > friends > time is limited Differences

19. public corporation+ legally contracts + unknown people - unlimited time + + social network - no legal validity + friends - time is limited What happens if they merge?

20. if we combine a social network online

21. Connect and share with the people in your life

22. with online trading

24. You would have legal contracts with your friends

26. If you have 100 friends

27. it would be like being married to 100 people

29. or having 100 kids

31. You would create a new and extended family of your own choice.

32. So what did Marx say about production?

33. “In your enjoyment, or use, of my product I would have the direct enjoyment both of being conscious of having satisfied a human need by my work, [---], and of having thus created an object corresponding to the need of another man’s essential nature...”

34. Meaning that the relation between the producer and consumer is central

35. I have to like what I do. You have to like what I do and I have to like that you like what I do

36. This also means that no one can own anyone else's work, or even their own work, as value cannot exist outside of this relationship

37. Your relations are the value, or the product.

38. Connect and trade the people in your life